Railway-rail joint.



PATENTBD SEPT. 22, 1903 a. A. WEBER,

RAILWAY RAIL-JOINT.

.APPIZIUATION ITLBD JUNE 2, 1902.

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' UNITED STATES Patented September 22, 1908.

PATENT OFFICE.

GEORGE A. WEBER, OF STAMFORD, CONNECTICUT, ASSIGNOR TO THE WEBER RAILWAY JOINT MANUFACTURING COMPANY, OF NEW YORK, N.Y. A CORPORATION OF WEST VIRGINIA.

RAILWAY- BAI L J O NT.

SPECIFICATION forming part ofLetters Patent No. 739,464, dated. September 22, '1903. Application filed June 2,1902. 'SerialNo. 109,938. (No model.)

.To all whom it may concern;

Be it known that I, GEORGE A. WEBER, a citizen of the United States, residing in Stamford, county of Fairfield, and State of Conjoints.

necticut, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Railway-Rail Joints, of

which the following is a specification.

My presentimprovement relates to railwayrail joints in which a-bond is employed to conduct the current of electricity from one rail-section to the next; and its objects are to improve upon the construction of such Further objects will hereinafter appear; and to these ends the inventionconsists of a joint'for carrying out the above object, constructed substantially as hereinafter described and claimed in this specification and shown in the accompanying drawings.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure 1 is a perspective view of a railway-rail joint embodying my improvement. Fig. 2 is a transverse section of the same, taken at the plane where the ends of two adjacent rail-sections meet. Fig. 3 is a perspective'view of the shoe which is comprised in said joint.

A A designate the end portions of adjacent rail-sections of a railway-track. They may be of any suitable construction .They are united by a joint comprising a shoe B, which has a base b and an upright b The rail-sections A A rest upon the base I) of the shoe, and the upright b of the shoe extends opposite one side of the rail-sections. Intermediate of the upright b and the rail sections is a fish-plate or bar C, which is shown as having outwardlyextended flanges, and intermediate of this fish-plate or bar and the upright of the shoe is a bar D of packing material, such as wood. On the other side of the rail-sections is a fish-plate orbar E. Bolts F, extending through the fish-plates or bars C E, the bar of packing material D, and

' the upright 12 of the shoe, secure all theseparts together. The shoe B and the plates or barsC-E may be made of any suitable metal, suchas iron or steel.

In the base 1) of the shoe B is a pocket 6 which extends downwardly and is here shown as formed integrally with the base of the shoe tance in the base and bending a portion of the base downwardly. This pocket has a central pressed portions 1) of the pocket 12 in the base of the shoe B and below the feet of the rail-sections AA "At its middle portion it is bent downwardly, so as to extendinto the deeply-depressed portion b of the said pocket b It may be united by solder to the feet of the rail-sections.

By myimprovement the bond is protected from injury and against all ordinary efforts at removal by malicious persons.

What I claim as my invention, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

l. In a railway-rail joint, the combination of a rail-support provided with a pocket extending longitudinally thereof, said pocket being centrally deeply depressed and slightly depressed at opposite ends of the deeply-depressed portion, and a bond constructed to conform to the contour of said pocket, with gitudinally of the support, said pocket'being centrally deeply depressed and slightly depressed at opposite ends of the deeply-depressed portion, and a bond constructed to conform tothe contour of said pocket, with end portions lying in the slightly-depressed end portions of the pocket, for substantially the purposes set forth.

In testimony whereof I have signed my name to this specification in the presence of two subscribing witnesses.

GEORGE A. WEBER.

Witnesses:

R. H. E. STARR, K. G. LE ARD.

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